Suffering Cessation Quotes

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering.

Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving inwards. It is not moving to the periphery, to the suffering, you are not feeding your suffering. It looks illogical, but this is the whole conclusion of all the mystics of the world: that you feed your suffering and you enjoy it in a subtle way, you don't want to be well—there must be some investment in it.

Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.

Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse.